Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Anyone out there who thinks the theory of evolution might be true may as well just forget it, as it's almost certainly disproved by jars of peanut butter which, if the theory stood up, would occasionally contain new life when you opened them:

Thanks to New Humanist reader Alistair Scott for sending this in. He was convinced it was a gag until he Googled the presenter, Chuck Missler, and found out that he's a well-known evangelist and a former "Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles" in the US military...

Thanks for that Culture of Doubt - so you're saying there's a creationist museum in Portsmouth? Please pass on more info if you've got it, as I've never heard of this. Wouldn't have had Pompey down as a creationist base!

It is indeed quite low budget. It's very small - just a few rooms. It's free entry too, although I imagine people would be asking for their money back if they were charged for so little. Unfortunately it's also right in one of the key tourist areas in Portsmouth so it probably attracts a few people in who don't know what it's really all about.

OK - so over a billion experiments a year are conducted in peanut butter. I am presuming then that every jar was thouroughly invesigated and checked under a microscope to ensure no new life was found!!!Scientific proof against evolution?? What a load of s**t

The theory of evolution isn't concerned with how life began, just with how it developed afterward. You can't pick on evolution for this.

"Life from non-life without the intervention of God" Impossible? Then where did God come from?

Don't they expect that any new life that would appear would be microscopic? And probably not recognizable to us as life at all.

Besides, you can get new life from a jar of peanut butter. You just have to wait for a billion years for it to appear. (Can anyone disprove that statement?) Another example of shoddy creationist research.

I can't believe I've just seen and heard that. I really can't... I need to go and clean my eyeballs. Surely even a primary school kid could realise that evolution takes millions of years, whereas we've had Peanut butter for, what, 200?

Oh no, I'm actually trying to reason with this nonsense... Now I need to try and wash my brain too.

A creationist museum in Portsmouth? What's happening in the UK? Unfortunately I don't live there at the moment. Can anyone organise a laugh party there? A whole horde of people, laughing themselves senseless at the 'exhibits'. That's the only way of combatting this nonsense.